(that’s completely aside from whether is should have been made. A gallows jungle gym strikes me as intentionally sensationalistic... I’m not quite sure what deeper point it’s trying to make?)

If “I’m offended” is now the standard to have art removed from public, God help us.

This is a puzzling series of statements from the developer. I don’t have any problem with Denuvo, but why do they insist that it is essential to the “sight and sound” of the game? Unless this is a clever reference to new or changed content that will be unlocked if/when the Denuvo protection is cracked—which would, I…

“In my disappointment, I made a snap judgment that was unsporting and was wrong. I apologize for that behavior, and in the future will at least appeal for such changes rather than rudely make them without consulting the judges or my opponent.”

But there’s a distinct difference between appearing to believe that output resolution is playing a role in your performance and blaming an entire series of losses on it. Someone who reads this article’s headline and nothing more would be inclined to believe that KoDee made some big statement after the match about how…

Yeah, I didn’t mean to generalize. I’m actually a big fan of “endless” games (particularly in the simulation genre), and I’m in my mid-30s, so perhaps I’m a bit atypical too. But I’ll admit that I’ve become a lot more choosy about which games I devote time to. Sometimes I find that I’ll purchase games, but leave them…

Yeah, I think maybe this is just a function of adulthood to some extent. Kids love Minecraft because they get to build stuff without limits, a state of affairs which matches their general freedom to not have to care about too much stuff in their lives. But as people get older, they need things they spend time on to…

You might want to investigate your own “tone” interpretation abilities, then. Try reading what people actually write, rather than attributing to them invisible arguments that you find it easiest to refute.

The only thing I ever said was that it seems like standard EVE logic to try throwing frigates at the problem. I never once suggested that I’d have been able to coordinate the event on my own. Not sure where you got that impression.

You must not play the game if you think that’s a funny characterization of my comment.

Yeah, the AI could field destroyers, but if the player zerg is big enough, they’ll be able to tear those to shreds while zeroing in on the main target anyway. Some frigates will go down, of course, but it’s super easy to stage more hulls in nearby systems or even in, say, a subfleet of Orcas.

But Obama and Hillary are so arrogant and elitist!

Sounds reasonable. Someone ellse figures it out, then you point it out as obvious. Its so obvious now.

I’m not arguing that the plan to field frigates was neccessarily destined to work, just that it’s not really a counterintuitive strategy in EVE Online. The article sort of tries to present it that way. Yes, the AI might have fielded destroyers in response. It appears not to have, though.

/facepalm Got commander Pink over here.

A lot of things are obvious once someone has figured it out.

I mean, this should have been a pretty obvious strategy. If the AI is gonna hit you with cruisers to counter your battleships, you go at it with something it can’t undersize: frigates. Losses are cheap, so you can just zerg the thing to death. I get that this type of strategy sounds incredible to laypeople who think…

Basically by your logic because a Genji main shows up you “shouldn’t have” to do anything to compensate.

The flag represents an aggressive, expansionist Japan. And to the people who bore the burdens of Japan’s stabbing colonialism (China and Korea in particular), yeah, that flag possesses an aura similar to the Nazi flag. You can’t really tell people not to feel the way they’re going to feel about something just because…

I lived in Korea and worked with Korean youth. It is very much in fashion to harbor animus toward Japan and Japanese people, even among the young. This doesn’t mean everyone is walking around virulently hating Japan, of course. But it’s more of a thing than you’d imagine.